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Flight o' Time
Medford and Jackson County
History trom the flies of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
July 1, 1952 (Tuesday)
Low humidity, an east wind
and the worst fire danger yet
this year caused the stale lor
eslor's office to stress the ne
cessity that every lumber op.
rrator obtain a permit for the
area he plans to work.
Road to Fourmile lake from
Fish lake, closed recently fol
lowing a slide for rcconstruc
tion, is open again.
20 YEARS AGO
July I, 1S42 (Wednesday)
Maj. Gen. Charles H. Ger
hard! arrives here to lake
charge of the 91st infantry di
vision at Camp White.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "It
looks like the heat wave has
subsided, at least until the
stores start advertising the an
nual August blanket sales."
30 YEARS AGO
July 1. 1932 (Friday)
Jackson county circuit court
announces Sept. 1 has been
set for the dedication of the
new county courthouse at
Main and Oakdale avc.
Stale tax board appraisal
of Medford business buildings
gives their total replacement
value as $2,733,220.
40 YEARS AGO
July 1, 1922 (Saturday)
Medford citizens committee
organized to fight recall elec
tion for Jackson county sher
iff after Gov. Ben Olcotl In
structs attorney general to
proceed with presccution ol
"outrages committed in Jack
son county" during the past
four months.
Chut of Medford fire de
partment requests authority
to combat any large fire
which might occur in the city
with dynamite.
SO YEARS AGO
July 1, 1912 (Monday)
Circuit Judge Frank M
Calkins upholds Injunction
sought by Ashland men
against construction of new
Main si bridge across Bear
creek.
Passengers and crew escape
Injury as Southern Pacilic
railroad's Shasta limited train
Is wrecked near Rogue River
clearing of track expected to
t;ike 12 hours.
Whal's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct It superior;
seven or eight is eicellent; five or
sis is good.
1 . In Lewi Carroll s
"Through a Looking Glass."
which two characters engaged
in eating oysters'.'
2. To whom did Jim Jef
fries lose the heavyweight
boxing title in 1(110?
3. What have the following
In common, pot age, borsch,
Ikilly?
4. Name the two largest
rivers that flow Into the Mis
(issippi River.
5. Who was the mother of
John the Baptist?
6. Who succeeded Cordell
Hull as Secretary of State?
7. With what Saint do you
associate the nervous disorder
chorea?
8. Who was the author of
"Poor Richard's Almanac?"
p. From the roots of what
plant is tapioca obtained'-
10. In the Hawaiian ln
guage. what does "Aloha Oe"
mean?
Answers: 1. The Walrus and
In Carpenter, . Jack John
ton. 3, They are soups. 4. Mis
souri and Ohio. S. Elisabeth.
(. E. R. Slelllnlus Jr. 7. St.
Vitus. I, Benjamin Franklin.
I. Cassava. 10 Farewell to
that.
SUNDAY. JULY 1. 196J
Vacation Rediscoveries
Vacations (the British call thcrn holidays) are
not supposed to prove anything profound. But
there are lessons to lie learned and rclearned.
In recent itinerant roving from the Pacific to
Portland to the Willamette, Umpqua and Rogue
Valleys, to the High Desert of central Oregon,
the high Cascades, and the parklike Ponderosa
forests east of the mountains, we learned and
relearned; discovered and rediscovered--a few
things.
Our activities included building a sand castle
on the beach, late-night talk with good friends
too-seldom seen, mowing lawns and burning
trash, lying under the stars and listening to the
flow of mountain water, playing silly word games
around the campfire, watching the Navy sail
down the Willamette, seeing the baby elephant
at the Portland zoo, driving freeways at 70 miles
per hour, and reading long, undisturbed hours
of reading books a rare treat.
flHAT did we learn or relearn; discover or
rediscover?
First, that we would rather live in Oregon
than anywhere else in the world, for it contains
in abundant measure everything we conceive to
be important and dear and beautiful.
This, of course, we have always known, even
among the cathedrals and museums of Europe,
the canyons of New York and the monuments of
Washington, the mountains and forests of Cali
fornia, the plains of Texas and the mid-West.
There is no place no place at all with Ore
gon's diversity, beauty, and opportunities for in
spiration. And relaxation.
llE are among those, like author Stewart Hol-
brook, who view with some dismay the fact
that others are "discovering'' Oregon.
This year, in particular, due in large part to
the Seattle World's Fair, the world is coming
here. The briefest drive along the highways and
freeways along 101 on the coast, 99 (or 5) north
to Portland, 97 up central Oregon shows vast
quantities of out-of-state vehicles, vehicles of ev
ery description and condition.
The largest number of the out-of-statcrs, in
many instances more frequent than Oregon
licensed cars, come from California. But virtually
every state in the union can be spotted sooner or
later, and there are many foreign licenses.
A ND trailers there are trailers ranging from
50-foot-plus "mobile homes" to tiny sleepers
and tent-convertibles. The relatively new "camp
ers," which put a small home away from home on
top of a pickup truck, are everywhere.
So are cars (and station wagons) with lug
gage or camping equipment strapped irto car
riers on top, some of them so heavily loaded one
wonders how they clave to speed along the high
way. It is obvious that hotels and motels must be
doing a booming business this summer. But so
are the campgrounds. State parks are crowded,
so are forest camps and, not infrequently, spots
where there are no facilities at all which arc con
verted into overnight accommodations for those
with tents, trailers or campers.
X7"E did not see "all of Oregon" this trip. Two
weeks is too short a time for this. Really, it
takes a lifetime to see it all, and savor all of its
charms and beauties.
But we did sec :
The Columbia (soon to be bridged) at As
toria, and the hundreds of rusting Liberty ships
in storage there.
The sands of Seaside and Gearhart, with the
surf below and the misty hills above.
Bustling, growing, changing Portland, with
tall new buildings rising at every hand, new hotels
and motels, and a rather new, somewhat self
conscious, sense of big city sophistication.
The growth of the freeway as it stretches,
ever lengthening, the full breadth of the state.
II'E drove the red highways of central Oregon,
and the wide streets of Bend, where a choc
olate ice cream cone can hardly be found.
We saw the headwaters of the Motolius, where
a sparkling river springs full-size from forest
surrounded springs, and we slept along its hanks
and watched the brilliant stars through the trees.
We saw the McKcnzic Crest (which really
should be a National Park), and the snow-capped
mountains, lakes, lava flows and forests stretch
ing north and south and west.
And we returned home to Medford, once
again convinced that despite the troubles and
fears and frustrations of the world, one can find
what one seeks in Oregon.
Selfishly, we hope too many others don't find
it here too. F.A.
Naming The New State Park
It was with disappointment that we read a
United Press International story out of Salem Fri
day, which said that the new state park on the
Rogue River between the towns of Rogue River
and Gold Mill had been named "Valley of the
Rogue" state park.
The name has a phony, artifical ring to it,
w ithout historic excuse, and with a coy, preten
tions "cuteness" that is utterly unbecoming.
Happily, however, we were reassured Satur
day that the name is only temporary, and that a
permanent name wiil be'given when the park is
dedicated, probably after the off and on ramps
from the freeway are completed.
We still plug for the name Tailholt State
Park, to commemorate the eailv nearhv com-
i ...... it.. I tt, ..: -
muiiio , nun uu- I'nmrri s
getting a good "holt" on
E.A.
t. . t ...-"l - .i ,t. .!: l ..
no ui ui'ii uie 1 1 it OJ
the tails of their horses.
"Hey We Landed One Of The Big One!"
Today & Tomorrow
By Walter Lippmann
Icl New York HeraM Tribune Svnriirate
GOOD NEWS FROM patient effort to deal with
EUROPE
There has now taken place
what is certainly a most im
portant, and it may be a de
cisive, turn
for the belter
in the compli
cated parallel
negotiati o n s
about the Eu
ropean Eco-
nomic Com-
munity and
the American
nuclear deter
Lippmann
rent. This is
the Joint Declaration of June
2fl of the Action Committee
for the United Slates of Eu- j
rope, of which the head is .
M. .lean Monnet.
'fhis committee is an un-
official working coalition of i
parly leaders, industrialists, -
anrl trade unionists, from the I
six European countries. It is
the political instrument
through which M. Monnet and
his colleagues work. Its power
and influence are great be
cause they are derived from
the fact that the committee
represents the will of the ris
ing forces in the European
post-war generation.
The committee has now
spoken out unequivocally in
favor of British membership
in the European Economic
Community and in a Euro
pean political union. It has
declared itself against the
separatism of Gen. dc Gaulle
which would lead to "profit-
less adventures and preserve
that spirit of superiority and
domination which not so long
ago led Europe to the brink
of destruction and could now
engulf the world." At the
same time the Action Com
mittee declares for a partner
ship between the new Europe
and North America, for a "re
lationship of two separate but
equally powerful entities,
each bearing its share of com
mnn responsibility In Iholnnl nnlv, if the fir! nvlneinle
worlfl ' ! of the partnership is that nu-
I clear weapons are for use
rPllE position taken by M. a gainst nuclear weapons,
Monnet's Action Commit-! against the use of those weap
lee will command warm sup- j ons, in fact, and against the
port in this rounlry The ad-j use of such weapons as diplo
herencc of Great Britain to; malic threats.
tnc turopean Economic Com-1
nuinity is indispensihle If the
hope of a great liberal trading
area is 10 ne realized.
For if Great Britain and
nic Scandinavian countries
and the European neutrals
and
tile Commonwealth are
all outside the Common M.
ket. and in rivalry with it. it
will be presumptuous of the
Six to call themselves "Eu
rope," and there will be lit'le
prospect of a partnership no
tween Europe and the foiled
States.
Equally, we shall give nut
full support to the idea of a
"new partnership of Europe
and America ' in the field of
defense and nuclear weapons.
Our argument with Grit, de
Caullr is about a separate,
independently operated
French nuclear deterrent. We
have never opposed, in fact
under both Eisenhower and
Kennedy we have oftered to
help make, a European nu
clear deterrent within NATO
'PllF. real question is how
to organise such a Euro
pean deterrent M Monnet's
Action Committee docs nut
offer, and probably does not
have, the blueprint of such a
European deterrent. The idea
has been discussed tor ycrs
and there is no agreed solu
tion of the problem of how
to make an effective force
which is run by a committee
of governments
The Action Commit tee toes
no further than to say ihat
"the new partnership of Eu
rope and America will rievel
op as the outcome of pracli "al
and patient effort to tackle
together the problems tin-v
have in ri.mninn '" Tins coun
try, which makes no el. tun
to .in Inherent and million
able right lo nuclear nionop
olv. ask nothing better than
that the problems of a Vuro-
pean and American partner-1 butte trails have been mam
ship be tackled by practical, tamed
1 I
concrete matters
TF WE explore the unsolved
problems of how to work
out a "relationship of two
separate but equally powerful
entities," we may ask first:
Is it possible for either of
these equally powerful enti
ties to wage nuclear war scp-
artcly? The American answer
wou'd be that this is not pos
sible.
Thus, if the Soviet Union
launched an all - out attack
against Western Europe, it
would collide first of all with
the large American army in
Europe. It would be impossi
ble for the United Stales to
do what Gen. de Gaulle pro-
fosses to think it might do
to sit slill and do nothing and
"'I Hs r.uropean army be an-
nihilaterl
In reverse, it is no less Irue
that neither Europe nor Amer
ica could engage in a separate
nuclear war anywhere, in Eu
rope. Africa, or Asia. Once
nuclear war were engaged
anywhere, preemptive strikes
against hostile nuclear forces
in being would become imper
ative. Even if we can imagine
a limited nuclear war, which
left great nuclear forces still
in being, the fallout would
cause hideous and intolerable
damage on those who are
hoping to sit out the nuclear
war.
j ...
rpilE conclusion we draw
1 from all this is that in the
j world todav the unique and
j paramount mission of nuclear
forces is to prevent the use
Uf nuclear forces. Thev can-
not he used, as conventional
forces can still be used as
for example they are being
used in Thailand as instru
ments of a national policy. In
the American view, a nuclear
partnership between Europe
and America can be worked
If this is the sound conclu-
sion to be drawn from the
facts of life In the nuclear
age, it is very likely to pre
vail in the end. The new Fu
rnne wlitrh Ihe Action Com.
mitlee is nrnmntins means to
he too strone to invite accres-
sion. But it is not nationalist
or militarist in temper.
It will t:ike years to make
the new Europe. Hut it will
also take a good many years
to make a separate but equal
ly powerful European nuclear
force So the questions which
Mr. Husk and Mr McNamara
are discussing with the Euro
pean governments are not ur
gent and critical. What is ur
gent and critical Is that the
British negotiations should
work out successfully, and
that the American negotia
tions with the enlarged Com
mon Market should be able to
be begun.
Use of Winema
Facilities Reported
Klamath Kails Heavv use
of recreation facilities m the
Winema National forest is ex
pected over the Fourth of
July holiday, according to
Earl Karlincer. Klamath dis
trict ranger
In the Lake nf the Woods
aiea. Karlmger said, many
people aie using nambovv and
S p r u e e campgrounds and
White Tine picnic area
A-oen Point campground,
which ha- been open only on
vveek ends, will be open July
'J and ;t ;i well as on throo:'!
the holiday
Most trui1 m the Mountain
Lakes Wild area and Skv
lakes area are closed because
of snow. Kaihnccr said, but
lower portions nf Moss creek.
Varney creek, and Pelican
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFOBD. OHECON
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Let's recite a little history
today-close at home history.
From time immemorial,
there has been a Klamath
Lake. Klamath Lake was the
magnet that drew John C.
Fremont to the Far West in
1843. He missed it that time.
Coming down from The Dal
les, he mistook the Klamath
Marsh for Klamath Lake, and
was very much disappointed
with what he saw after hav
ing come so far.
FREMONT came again lo
the Far West in 1846 - and
this time he found what he
sought. He wag camped on
Upper Klamath Lake when
Lieutenant Gillespie, bearer
of a secret message from
Washington, found him.
To reach Klamath Lake
from Washington, Lieutenant
Gillespie had traveled by
naval vessel lo Vera Cruz,
had crossed Mexico on foot
to Mazallan, had traveled
thence by sailing ship to the
Sandwich Islands, from the
Sandwich Islands tn San
Francisco by sailing ship and
from San Francisco to Klam
ath Lake by saddle horse.
The message he carried was
so secret that while crossing
Mexico he had committed it
to memory and had eaten the
paper on which it was writ
ten. PRESUMABLY in obedience
lo the message, Fremont
and his party, including Kit
Carson, took off for Califor
nia and at Sonoma, in con
junction with American set
tlers, they raised the Bear
Flag and proclaimed the Bear
Republic, which became the
State of California.
Up this way, we laughingly
claim Klamath Lake as the
birthplace of American Cali
fornia. T ET'S skip the next 70 years
" By the early 1920's, it was
realized that there were great
agricultural possibilities in
the Klamath Basin. But water
was needed. The water must
come from Klamath Lake, the
source nf tlie Klamath River.
The Klamath Lake of that
day was not the Klamath.
Dennis the Menace
' 1
WHEN IV SET HOME, WE VE GOT A
AW M IS GONNA TtU MM WHEf?E
'Action' Medicine in
By ERIC SEVAREID
One of the frustrations of
the general columnist is that
the short-bread he casts upon
' in the form of
J' ? fragments
t h o u y h he
I tries to avoid
siaip crusis.
pi'l our oi n l s
r J r e vv a r d ie
ment is often
returned as a
whole loaf, well - risen, from
persons who rank as chefs,
and not short order cooks,
in the matter concerned.
l'hr other week, in remark
ing upon the Augustan man
ner with which AMA so fre
quently pronounces judgment
upon political and historical
matters. I suggested that the
concentrated necessities of
technical education had de
prived the generality of
American doctors of the li
beral education out of which
can grow a more vital irw of
social history.
The crested letterheads
from physicians and surgeons
piled up rapidly Some gave
off a heat tbul r.n light! that
seemed to me to confirm
what 1 had tried to sav Some,
in protest, clearly reflected
minds schooled in much more
tban medicine Others, espe
cially thn.e from professors
and deans of medicine, said
in essence thai the column
wa justified.
In the nhfaf of forrespon-
i rf
Lake we know now. It was
relatively shallow. Strong
winds from the south would
pile the water up at the north
end. Then strong winds from
the north would pile the wa
ter up at the southern end
of the lake, causing it to over
flow the reef that acted as
a low natural dam and cre
ated the lake.
ryHE result was an immense
-- loss of water.
What was needed was a
HIGHER dam to hold back
the water.
rpHE Reclamation Service
was called in to see what
could be done about it. Its
engineers made a study of the
situation and reported that
such a dam was feasible but
its cost would be in the neigh
borhood of $125,000.
The Reclamation Act was
then only about 20 years old.
Its job was to reclaim the
desert lands of the WHOLE
WEST. The upshot nf the
study was a report hy the en
gineers that while the Klam
ath Lake project was feasible
its cost would be nut of pro
portion to the funds 'then
available.
IT WAS then thai a young
engineer for a private pow
er company arrived on the
scene. He made a careful
sti.dy of the possibilities of
the project and reported that
if an arrangement could be
made whereby the Reclama
tion Service would control
and apportion the stored wa
ter his company would build
the dam.
rpHAT was the beginning of
- what we now know as the
Klamath Project, and the
young engineer with a gleam
in his eye and a vision in his
mind was John Boyle, who
was honored on Monday of
last week by the naming for
him of Ihe biggest power
plant in the Klamath River
power system.
His engineering genius has
guided much of Southern Ore
gon's water and power devel
opment during the past half
century.
$UPPfUS fOR AW tW) !
SHE HIO HIS $OLf CLUBS!'
; dence was a copy of the re
: markable interview with Dr.
Herbert Rattier of the Stritch
School of Medicine at Loyola
university which has been pub
lished in pamphlet form by
I the Center for Ihe Study nf
; Democratic Institutions at
Santa Barbara. From this I
learn that the prcmedical
j curriculum for many future
doctors is being shortened
jcvrn more in order "to make
the MD degree competitive in
'time with the PhD degree."
But. says Dr. Ratner, "we are
I streamlining the educational
process in the wrong direction
by stressing the technological
at the expense of the humani
ties."
As I read his analysis. Dr
Ratner is not so much con
cerned with the physician's
grasp of philosophy or histo
ry as objective studies, or
with the political and eco
nomic effect of proposed
health - cost legislation, as
he is with the physician's un
derstanding and treatment of
his patient as a complete hu
man entity and with the ef
fect on the quality of treat
ment which the legislation
may have. In any case, his
whole argument is an elo
quent pica against the rapid
drift away from humanitarian
individualism, in the highest
sense of that phrar. within
the practice of medicine.
Amone. the causes of this
drift he seems tn assicn a
greater role tn lite medical
schools than he dors to gov
ernment per se r.-emedical
Matter of Fact
(ci new York Herald
KENNEDY GOES TO
THE COUNTRY j
Washington - President
Kennedy and his staff are now
thinking seriously about tak
f" eWijulI"! 'nS 'he admin-1
-S istra'in's case
i f to the country
t jri before this
jT ff year's con-:
f ' J a g r e t sional :
V j Speaking
rm irips ana spot
f 1 speeches are '
under rnnsid.
era) ion for
both September and October.
With great reluctance, and
with little visible effect,
President Eisenhower also en
tered the fray in the off-year
elections while he was in the
White House. But the inter
ventions President Kennedy is
planning will be very differ
ent from the Eisenhower in
terventions, which were al
ways momentary, grandiose,
and bland. To the extent the
other demands of his office
I permit. Kennedy wants to
take the stump in earnest, in
the old-fashioned American
way.
Within the While House
staff, in fact, something of an
argument is already going on
about where the President
ought to concentrate his ef
forts. ...
TllANY smaller slates have
Senate scats and Cover
group would like these states
to be covered. The other
group is arguing for intense
concentration on the big states
like California, New York, In
diana, Pennsylvania, Ohio,
and Illinois, where the vot
ing trend will have more in
fluence on the future compo
sition of the House of Repre
sentatives. The President ap
parently leans to the latter
view.
Going to the country in an
off - year, as the President is
now thinking of doing, is a
very risky course of action.
By getting into the campaign
with both feet, instead of heli
copteding in and helicopter
ing out in the Eisenhower
manner, a President automat
ically engages his personal
prestige in local races, in
which his name is not on the
ballot. Thus he loses doubly if
his party loses.
This time - honored argu
ment for Presidential quies
cence in off - years is still
to be heard in the Kennedy
White House. But there is
much more force and convic
tion in the counter-argument,
that taking the risk this year
is one of those things the
President "ran t not do."
...
TTE "CAN'T not do it," ac
cording to this line nf ar
gument, because history is
now moving so fast, both in
this country and the world,
that the old American politi
cal rules are partly outmoded.
Under the old rules, Kennedy
would now stay above the
contest. He would accept a
Democratic set - back if that
was the election result. He
would then play politics
against the new Congress for
two years, in the hope nf mak
ing a spectacular comeback in
1964.
But as the President him
self has reportedly confided
to those around him, it is
"too dangerous" nowadays to
waste two crucial years on po
litical bickering between the
White House and the Capitol.
rvsr
i., ..-V &
U.S. Tradition
' curricula aside, he argues that
:the medical courses them
selves become ever more nar
rowed and specialized "Most
I medical schools are confused
j about their basic purpose. We
do not know any longer
Whether our Eoal is to turn
out physicians or research
men. . . .We should appeal to
students as humanitarians,
not as technologists, as mak
ers of health in the suffering
I rather than pursuers of truth
in the laboratory, which calls
for a different bent nf mind."
I ...
I And what causes this drift
1 WITHIN the school1 It is pri
marily money, for Parkin,
son's Law appears tn operate
I in this as in most other realms
i" . . . The tremendous amount
of research money available
to the medical schools from
government, foundation ann
the pharmaceutical sources. It
is common knowledge that we
I have more research money
available than we have wor
j thy researchers and worthy
research ideas, and this avail
able money seduces Research
1 scientists, rather than cood
teachers and practitioners
I hjve become the sotuht-after
commodity for medical
schools "
It is in the bonrs of Amer
. icans to believe that all prob
lems can be solved if onl
enough money is spent,
enough heads put together
and enough action taken Both
this and foreign lands have
much benefited bv this ren
tra! belief, but there is a lim
, it to ihe production of ouaii
!t:ej by a.nassir.j quantities
By Joseph Altop
Tribune Syndicate
Thai moans, in turn, mat me
President desperately needs a
new Congress which will be
more amenable and respon
sive than the present one.
Yet the old rules also say
that the party in power al
ways loses seats in an elf
year. If the President lakes
the stump, in sum. he will be
breaking the old rules about
Presidential political behavior
in the hope of breaking the
old rules about off-year elec
tion results.
At the moment, the general
political atmosphere in Wash
ington can only be described
as rancid; but the rancidity
and discouragement have not
yet infected the White House.
The While House view is that
the Republicans in Congress
are paving the way for an un
precedcntcdly good Demo
cratic showing next Novem
ber, by their. fairly persistent
partisanship and negativism.
.
rpHEY'RE getting Ihe imaga
-- of a know - nothing, do
nothing, see - nothing, go-nowhere
party, and it's bound
to do them harm," according
lo one of Ihe President s chief
political advisors. Contrary to
a recent report, moreover, the
White House has most em
phatically not been depressert
by recent public opinion
soundings by pollers.
The Louis Harris poll, for
instance, which is supposed to
have brought Kennedy bad
news, has in fact discovered
overwhelming public support
for the President's action to
hold the price line in steel,
in tests taken both before and
after the stock market de
cline. The same poll also
found very recently that ths
President would carry New
York state against Gov. Nel
son Rockefeller by a whop
ping 2-to-t majority if an elec
tion were held tomorrow.
For many other reasons be
sides the reports of the poll
ers, the White House in fart
believes that the President
has not as yet lost support
in the country, excrpt in the
business community, "which
always votes Rppuhliran any
way." As yel. in truth, there
is only one possible develop
ment that alarms the White
House.
It time are bad and jobl
are scarce, it is admitted Ihat
the election can turn intn a
near-disaster.
Vet Receives Note
From Washington
Henry Washington Jr.. a
member of the Veterans Ad
ministration Domiciliary at
White City, has received a
letter from the White House
in Washington. D.C., ac
knowledging a gift sent to
President John F. Kennedy.
The gift was in the form
nf a cross bearing a picture
of the President. Washington
had won third prize in the
recent Hobby Fair at the VA
domiciliary for the crose
which he made.
The letter reads in part:
"The President asked me to
thank you for the decorative
cross, bearing a picture ot
him. that you made and en
tered in your Hobby fair. He
very much appreciated your
friendliness in wanting him
to have this prize-winnini
artwork."
It was signed by Evelyn
Lincoln, personal secretary
tn the pr.sirient.
iThe point of diminishing re-
I turns per dollar, per head
and per action must come. Ap
parently it has come in this
field, as I happen tn believe
it has come in much nf the
field of our foreign economic
aid. for one example. (Let the
I Peace Corps think hard be
fore expanding tn an Army
or an Armv Groupj
i
The action psychology lire
;at the beginnings of American
'medical practice. So, as Dr.
Ratner reminds us, we hap
pily pay the surgeon a hipi
fee for an operation - - he
hss acted and grudgingly
pay a small fee tn the phvsi
cian who rightly advises ',,-,t
we let nature cure an ail
ment. He has not acted Dr.
Ratner asserts flatly th.,1;
America is the best place m
the world in which to hav
a serious illness and one of
the worst in which to have a
non-serious illness
He reminds us nf what Dr.
Oliver Wendell Holmes had
,to say of the profession a
century ago; "How could a
people . . . which has con.
trivrd the Bowie - knife and
the revolver, which has chew
ed the juice out of a l t'-o
iiprrlxtive. m the language
tp Fourth of J;,'y nra'torj
which :rs;ts :n cendirc o-'-t
,,cht and forces and M ,
to out-Mii. nut-run and rVrk.
mate ail the rest of rrea-mr-how
cmild such a pronV w
content with anv tvd -h-rn'
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Hall Syndicate. Ine )
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